Jeffrey Tambor Joins the Cast of NBC Pilot 'Bent'

Although Jeffrey Tambor won't be performing on Broadway this season after withdrawing from LA CAGE AUX FOLLES last month, he won't be out of show business for long, either. The actor will co-star in NBC's pilot "Bent", according to Deadline.com.

The series is set to be a single-camera comedy, and also stars Amanda Peet and David Walton as a recent divorcee and the contractor who becomes her romantic interest, respectively. Tambor will play the contractor's father, a former actor who's driven everywhere by his son.

Jeffrey Tambor made his Broadway debut in 1976 in the comedy Sly Fox, appearing opposite George C. Scott and directed by Arthur Penn. He appeared in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of Measure for Measure that same year. He has remained active in theater, directing Lanford Wilson's Burn This at the Skylight Theatre in Los Angeles and acting and directing at many regional theatre companies, including the Academy Festival Theatre in Chicago and the Loeb Drama Center at Harvard and in plays by Shakespeare, Molière and Chekhov, as well as contemporary writers. In 2005, he returned to Broadway in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, which won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play and a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance.

However, as producers stated in late February, "Jeffrey Tambor was experiencing complications from recent hip surgery and the pain and the challenge of performing in a musical eight times a week proved to be too physically demanding" for his return to LA CAGE.